A Nordic King Quotes

“Look at you,” he whispers harshly, gaze roaming all over my face from my eyes to my nose to my temple to my lips.
“Me?”
He gives a faint shake of his head. “What a rare and beautiful thing you are.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“I am a king. And I belong to you in ways I never thought possible. More than I belong to my people, more than I belong to the people, I belong to you.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“I’ve waited forty years for my heart to have a home,” he says softly. “I’ve waited for you.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“There is no one way to fall in love. It may scar you, make its mark, but that fall, that impact, is different for everyone.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“She’s not just a nanny.
She’s Aurora.
She’s my reckoning and saviour all at once.
She’s her namesake, those northern lights that brighten the darkest winter skies.
She’s my homecoming.
And I’m in love with her.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Did you talk to all your past employers this way?” he eventually asks.
“I would have if they were as rude as you.”
Both of his brows shoot up and I’m prepared for him to start shouting to his secret service and have me dragged off to the guillotines.
Instead he gives me a tight smile. “I’ll be paying your salary. That doesn’t mean I have to like you.”:
“And I’ll be earning that salary. That doesn’t mean I have to like you either.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Instead it’s slow and insidious, slinking through you like ink through water, until it permeates every inch of your soul.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Is that the only thing that’s important to you?” he asks, his voice low and rough. “The job?”
“No. The girls are everything to me,” I take in a deep breath. “As are you.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Adulthood is a cage, the restrictions are slowly layered through the years, like bars. Family, jobs, spouses, children, expectations. It all adds up. It all changes us to become people that society wants us to be.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“We’re all just broken children covering our guilt with adult clothing. We make peace with our guilt or we don’t but either way, we keep moving on. Please, move on with me. Be with me. I—I can’t do this without you. I have a home in your heart and a love that won’t stop bleeding. I need you in my life, you are my life, you are my sun that I’ve waited too many winters for.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“But love, I guess that’s the difference. Love is like looking at the world through polarized glasses. Every single thing has changed for the better. Everything murky becomes clear again.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“The bastard laughs. In front of everyone. Dick.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Aurora,” he whispers against my mouth. “How can I keep you forever?”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“I surrender completely.
I want to give him everything.
I want him to take me, take me over, devour me.
Rule me.
I want every single part of him, deep inside. I want to see how much of him I can take, how he feels from the inside, what it’s like to be thoroughly fucked by the King of Denmark.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“She’s sunshine and fresh air and the northern lights. She’s a goddess, through and through with playful eyes and a smile that will knock you flat on your back.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“I ached for him, every second of the day, like I was nursing a wound that just wouldn't heal.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Our eyes lock and that tension and heat I’m always trying to ignore crackles between us.
She’s going to ruin me, I’m sure.
For once I might not mind.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“All it does is add to my stress, knowing that all these people look to me as their king. No one should look to me for anything.
And yet, that’s what I want, what I need, from her.
To look at me for everything.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Aurora, this living goddess in my home, is making me weak and for the first time ever, I have something to lose.
Her.
I can’t lose her.
And I can’t keep her.
I don’t know what to do.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“It’s crazy. It’s crazy. I’m the nanny, he’s the king, but even though I tell myself this over and over again like a broken record, it does nothing to stop it. I throw words and logic at my heart and it deflects them every time.
I love him and it’s killing me that I can’t have him.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“I see her like she was tonight with the girls, caring for them as she does with her big, persistent heart…
Is it fucked up to want that?
Is it even more fucked up to want that from her?”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“He grabs my chin lightly and holds my face, making sure I can’t break eye contact, can’t look away. It’s so intimate, the way his stare feels like he’s stripping me bare. But it’s Aksel. He can peer into my soul at any time. He’ll only see his own soul there. A home for his heart.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“No one would understand the truth. That she’s not just a nanny. She’s Aurora. She’s my reckoning and savior all at once. She’s her namesake, those northern lights that brighten the darkest winter skies. She’s my homecoming. And I’m in love with her.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Fate has made me the lost king, encased in cheap armor that only keeps up appearances, forever fighting a battle he will never win.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“You love me. You love me. I'm home.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“And more than that, I relate. I know. I know what it’s like to search for something, not knowing what it is, feeling restless and unrooted and wondering if you’ll ever find your place in the world.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“But hearts are made to hold you hostage and I’m captive against my will.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“Bloody hell.
I think I’m in love my boss.
A king.
And there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“frizz out on me later, I”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“ris á l’amande (which is French but actually doesn’t exist in France), which is rice pudding, whipped cream, cherry sauce, and cut almonds.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King